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Updated September 2026

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MySQL review

Amandeep Pawar
Amandeep Pawar
Senior Engineer at Airy Software Technologies Private Limited
Careful data design has delivered consistent transactions and supports reliable...
MySQL is a reliable and mature relational database, but there are a few areas where it could be improved. One area is horizontal scalability. While MySQL supports scaling for applications, handling write-heavy workloads often requires additional solutions such as sharding, which adds complexity. Another area where it could improve is in...
MySQL review

reviewer2599590
Student at a university with 10,001+ employees
Learning projects have benefited from open source flexibility and strong...
MySQL was not scaled up, so I did not use the replication capabilities. I do not think MySQL's data security features were at an industrial level for my project, so I did not make use of them. I was mostly using indexes. I would advise people thinking about using MySQL to look up if the indexing mechanism is useful for their needs and then...

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